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Heir apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani met commander of US Central Command. Qatar and France have agreed to cancel a meeting of a mediation group on Lebanon.
In November 2009, more than 500 people were killed in devastating floods in Jeddah and there was considerable damage to the city’s failing infrastructure.
Interior minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled Al-Sabah’s 13 January resignation request has been accepted by Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, following allegations that a man was tortured to death while in police custody.
Allegations of torture and disagreement over defendants’ state-appointed lawyers delay controversial trial
KING ABDULLAH: Return to Morocco. CROWN PRINCE SULTAN: Remains in public eye. KHALID BIN SULTAN: Military meetings. KHALID BIN. MOHAMMED BIN NAYEF: Bouteflika meeting. ABDELAZIZ BIN FAHD: High-profile wedding/ NAYEF BIN SULTAN: December wedding. FAISAL BIN ABDULLAH: Wellington interest. NAWWAF BIN FAISAL BIN FAHD: New Youth Welfare head. PRINCES: Funerals. RIMA BINT BANDAR: Comments on women drivers
Three MPs have filed a request to question interior minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled Al-Sabah over the death of 35-year-old Mohammed Ghazzai Al-Mutairi in a police station. It is alleged he was subjected to severe torture. MPs Waleed Al-Tabtabai, Shuaib Al-Muwaizri and Salem Al-Namlan argue
Twenty-four males, including a 17-year-old, who say they are Kuwaiti bidoon, are claiming asylum in the UK after the UK Border Agency (UKBA) found them at the Port of Harwich, Essex, in the early hours of 10 January.
The status of stateless Arabs in Kuwait, whom the government calls ‘illegal residents’, has been highlighted by human rights organisations for many years. Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa researcher Priyanka Motaparthy told GSN: “People who have lived in Kuwait their whole lives have no legal status there.
Sarkozy has been forced to admit that Paris was too close to a tyrant, and other European and Arab states have been embarrassed by their relations with Ben Ali – even though, usually in private, many expressed distaste for his methods of rule.
Cabinet members had to submit their resignation three months before elections in order to become candidates. The future remains vague for former ministers such as Rashad Al-Alimi (deputy minister for security affairs), Sadeq Ameen Abu Rass (GPC assistant general secretary),
Commentators are looking for signs of ‘contagion’ from Tunisia that would bring down governments from Morocco and Algeria to Jordan and Yemen. Tunisia, after all, rejoiced in arguably the Arab world’s most positive social indicators, and its diversified economy and proximity
The overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his kleptocratic family has shaken other authoritarian rulers and revived the ‘Arab street’. Across the Arab world populations are stirring, while governments may struggle to accommodate local variants of the ‘Tunisia effect’
Even if stories of widely detested presidential wife Leila Trabelsi spiriting out 1.5 tonnes of gold as the president departed are apocryphal – and French and other sources give the report some credence – the extended family has huge holdings abroad, including property in Dubai, Europe
Qatar’s popular Arabic satellite television station Al-Jazeera has again provoked a regional government, this time the US-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.
When Saudi-watchers get together, conversation will soon turn to questions that can become an obsession: who will be the next Saudi monarch, who will succeed him and when will this happen? The onset of illness associated with old age cannot help the